Claude Lévi-Strauss Quotes

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nat...

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely ...

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protecte...

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisono...

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up f...

For mile after mile the same melodic phrase rose up in my memory. I simply couldn’t get free of it. ...

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated that such messages can be understood by ...

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without ...